USN-4128-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities
10 September 2019
Several security issues were fixed in Tomcat 8.
Releases
Packages
- tomcat8 - Servlet and JSP engine
Details
It was discovered that the Tomcat 8 SSI printenv command echoed user
provided data without escaping it. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to perform an XSS attack. (CVE-2019-0221)
It was discovered that Tomcat 8 did not address HTTP/2 connection window
exhaustion on write while addressing CVE-2019-0199. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-10072)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-4128-2: libtomcat9-java, libtomcat9-embed-java, tomcat9-common, tomcat9-admin, tomcat9, tomcat9-examples, tomcat9-docs, tomcat9-user
- USN-6908-1: tomcat7-docs, tomcat7-examples, libservlet3.0-java, libtomcat7-java, libservlet3.0-java-doc, tomcat7, tomcat7-user, tomcat7-admin, tomcat7-common